Updates:
Got my new vanity plates - "1K AMPS". Sorry no pictures yet.
Went to a local VW club gathering a couple weeks ago. The car was quite popular. Gave some rides and stuff.
I got invited to the Pierce College Automotive Department to show off the car to a class - college kids are extremely interested in this type of stuff. The school paper reporters were there and took some pictures and interviewed me. I'll probably get an article written about the car soon.
Sunday morning it was raining so I decided to test the car in the rain - it did not do well! After about a block the motor started to jerk and I couldn't get it to go over about 1000 RPM so I turned around and hobbled back home. At least the hazard flashers work. Later in the day after it stopped raining, the car ran fine after drying out. I suspect that the motor connections got wet and caused some leakage current to the motor case, which confused the Zilla. I should do some more testing and possibly protect the motor from direct moisture somehow.
1 comment:
You've been working on this project for how long and you don't have "any" pictures. If I were a more frequent poster on /. I would be calling BS about now.
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